Hermes Thrice Great

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P.S. I wonder, why the user-name? -- Apisite (talk) 08:45, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Hello! It is the English translation of Hermes Trismegistus, the “author” of the Hermetic corpus and as a student of the Western Mystery Tradition, I chose it as a username as a tribute. Moreover, because Hermes a a deity is associated with language, messages, commerce, social intercourse, initiation, guidance, crossroads, and in the Hellenistic period, broadly correlative with the Egyptian Deity Thoth as a deity of knowledge and learning, and a mediator between higher knowledge and humanity, I found it relevant to my goals and activities here on Wiktionary and Wikipedia (where I also go by this alias). Thank you for your message! — Hermes Thrice Great (talk) 12:06, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Please read WT:EL

At מנין you removed a headword template and you used the header levels for a single-etymology entry on a multiple-etymology entry, thus "fixing" what wasn't broken. Chuck Entz (talk) 15:52, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Ironically, I did check WT:EL before making that edit, but I looked at WT:LOH and mistakenly understood that the level-3 etymology header and level-3 PoS header applied to all etymologies and all PoS. I did not realize that there is a separate section farther down the (very long) page for multiple etymologies, and there is also no indication of this in the ToC for WT:EL. This could be improved.

Also, from a logical perspective, it makes absolutely no sense that an etymology header should be the same level as a PoS header in the case of single etymologies, but one level higher in the case of multiple etymologies. In both cases, the PoS belongs to the etymology, whether there is one or there are multiple etymologies on the page. In a more intelligent system, etymology headers would always be level-3 and PoS headers would always be level-4, with derived terms, etc as level-5 headers under the PoS headers. This could probably be easily fixed site-wide by a bot. If the decision to make the format for single-etymology entries different than multiple-etymology entries was a consideration made in the name of faster editing, since most entries are single-etymology, the disruption of hierarchical logic and the increased likelihood of errors it introduces, in the name of saving a few milliseconds typing a couple equals signs is hardly worth it.

But I will definitely remember the idiosyncrasies of the current system until such time this is fixed.

Hermes Thrice Great (talk) 08:33, 11 August 2024 (UTC)